8:35 So, there is no boss with literally 3.000.002 health but there is a recorded instance where a boss put every party member into time stop but he died to the Healer's Damage Over Time spell, so he's right on principle that all damage matters, even the seemingly insignificant ones.

@pforgottonsoul

Жыл бұрын

when my static was progging P2S we won by a single DoT tick.

@jakexx2

Жыл бұрын

enrage wipes mostly happen at 0.1% hp after all

@wingedparagon4448

Жыл бұрын

When you wipe on 0.1%? That happens quite a bit. So yeah, every bit of dps matters.

@adamboyd1132

Жыл бұрын

I've been in a party that died to enrage with the boss at 0.4% hp. It happens.

The "Too Fast" enrage is Ifrit EX. Basically it keeps spawning Infernal Nails that you need to drestroy throughtout the fight or else his big attack will wipe the party. However if you damage him too much too fast you'll hit the threshold to trigger the attack before even getting a chance to deal with the nails and be obliterated.

@craigfunk3453

Жыл бұрын

Its more the old version of the ARR extremes. Back then they used their ultimates immediately if pushed beyond specific health thresholds and instantly wiping the party if the requirements to survive weren't met. Garuda had her 2 partners that had to fall, ifrit did 3 infernal nail phases each more difficult than the last, Leviathan had the bubble adds and shield, Ramuh had his adds charging him up, Shiva had her golems, moggle mog auto enrages after 3 rounds of healing his moogle followers. Titan is the oddball out on the 'go too fast' enrages back in the day

@KyrialArthian

Жыл бұрын

To add to this, this is only an issue if you're doing it at a much higher level than it was intended for. The game will automatically sync you down to the level any content is intended for, but you can turn this option off in order to steamroll old content with less players or even solo. That is the only time this becomes an issue, and really only in this fight.

@dragonmanj

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget to take a look at his tank and healer crap guides!

@fatesse3135

Жыл бұрын

Or if you blow up the nails too fast you get stacking debuffs that make you take crazy damage and put you at risk of fall down and cry a lot.

@mjtechnoviking44

Жыл бұрын

Anymore you can jump on a lvl 90 solo and laugh as he tries to burn you with his cigarette lighter

I believe the adorable little murder machine is JoCat's FFXIV character, Victor Quibbles, a catboy that typically wears puffy coats and a bow or other little hair ornament.

The swimming ring on the Black Mage is a reference to one of their spells. Ley Lines is a spell they place on ground and have to stand on it to get its benefit.

@noppornwongrassamee8941

Жыл бұрын

Except the ley lines visual isn't "on the ground" so much as waist height (if you're hyur) above the ground, hence the "swimming" joke.

@InnocentGuillotine

Жыл бұрын

@@noppornwongrassamee8941 maybe if you're a min height ladyhyur; my main is a min height male viera and they only reach my knees.

@hellfrozenphoenix13

Жыл бұрын

....you know, as a female roe, I never noticed it wasn't on the ground, ngl.

Don't feel overwhelmed by the hotbars you see in these videos; they are taken from max level jobs (which is currently 90). You are introduced to them slowly over the levels, with plenty of time to get used to each new one, so it's really not bad. At least, for the jobs that start at level 1, which you have no choice but to start as. Later in the game, you'll get access to jobs that start at 30, 50, 60, and 70 respectively, but only once you have something else at that level (and in the case of the level 30 ones, have completed the entire base game's main story and made it to the first expansion). And by then, you should (hopefully) be more comfortable with how the game works and still not have any problems (if you even want to play those jobs; it's completely optional to even unlock them, let alone play them).

The time to queue for dungeons in FF14 is insane as a DPS. He probably did actually queue up when he was making the video and that happened. The longest time I ever waited for a dungeon finder was some over 30 minutes, it can be insane sometimes.

@Airier

Жыл бұрын

30 minutes... Woah, just how important was that dungeon? 😯

@Gameorama91

Жыл бұрын

@@Airier The specific dungeon might've been a small factor, but it's mostly the fact that a huge majority of the playerbase wants to play a DPS class, so there's literally too many of them trying to find a party at once lol. I think a lot of people have the misconception that tanks and healers are either too stressful because of the responsibility they have, or think they must be boring because they wanna play the MMO like an action game and just do damage constantly lol. But I've found in this game specifically that Tanks and Healers still have plenty to do, since as you've seen in these vids, they need to be doing damage as much as possible as well, so the misconception probably comes from their experience with other MMOs

@ShadowsDragoon

Жыл бұрын

@@Airier Thankfully not very. It was just my daily dungeon finder, but the needed class wasn't tank or healer so I hopped on Dragoon or Monk to do the dungeon since I needed them to cap as well.

@warlocksm1

Жыл бұрын

once waited about 30 min and got afk to get a glass of water to drink and meanwhile queue poped up and i was unable to accept in time. I had to wait 20+ min utes again :(.

@MrWarriorace

Жыл бұрын

@@Airier It's worse when it's super old raids. The binding coils of bahaumt is the worse to try and find random people for.

Fun Fact, Victor Quibbles is the name of Jocat's DnD character he played as when he was a guest on the Unexpectables DnD stream.

Limsa is a pirate themed town, and is notorious for ERP... which is pretty on brand for pirates I guess.

@livingreverie5951

5 ай бұрын

Not to mention being just Always crowded

There's the Ranged DPS inbound. Melee DPS is actually the part 1 of DPS.

@MegaErik1990

Жыл бұрын

Can't wait for the ranged and caster dps videos XD

@Sovek86

Жыл бұрын

@@MegaErik1990 I cant wait for caster since I main RDM and leveling BLM

Max level is 90 now that Endwalker is out, the story is definitely worth it if you do end up playing it. Also you can have all jobs on one character.

@DarthZ01

Жыл бұрын

thats what convinced me, i was a wow player til i met my gf and she explained that all jobs (classes) can be played on the same character. i always hated levelling alts through the same old quests and losing all my extra progressions on the side. like reputations.

If you are going to be starting FFXIV, I highly recommend watching the Endwalker Job Actions. It's the most up-to-date of showing off all the jobs you can play and what they can do. I do also wanna give a fair warning when it comes to starting FFXIV and that it can be a slog if you don't read and pay attention to what's happening, which makes the payoff, in the end, all the more satisfying. JoCat did do a video on how his experiences in FFXIV were how he came to love it, and I highly recommend it if you want to watch as well.

I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet but your confusion about “higher level players” is understandable. Basically there is a system in place that automatically syncs you down to the maximum level cap for the Dungeon, Trial or Raid that you are doing, your gear’s Item Level is also synced down similarly

Limsa is the main city for ERP in FF14 [hence why reading the 24 hour log would probably be horrible] Damage Down in Savage or Unreals can murder a run as the reduction can be HUGE

If you're looking to get into FF14, JoCat himself has a video of his troubled starting experience and explains how you can best start it ("So I Wanna Talk About How It Took Me 300 Hours To Like FFXIV (and how you can too in far less time)"), and goes over both the good and the bad aspects of the game. It is quite long, but if you're able to make a reaction of it without being an actual player yet, that would be quite a video. Also if you are or used to be a WoW player (and I think I recall you were), Jesse Cox also has a great video comparing the two called "15 years of WoW vs 1 year of FFXIV", which goes over some different aspects and might explain how to approach the game in a bit more familiar terms :)

The good news regarding button overload is most classes start with just a few buttons and then gradually spoonfeed you new buttons over the course of several dozen levels so you can slowly work them into muscle memory. So you have time to get your head around the basics, then you get handed new toys to figure out.

About the thing with the tooltips: When you start at Lvl 1 you only have 1 skill you can use (at least when starting a new character). The amount grows slowly with your level ups so you have plenty of time to get used to the skills. Yes, on max level there are many skills but until then you normally have them memorized. At least the ones you use the most. It' a little different for the newer jobs that came in the game with the add ons. Reaper, for example, came in with the Endwalker expansion und you start with level 70 on him so there will be many skills already (and you need another job on lvl 70 to unlock). But until then you are definetly used to the system and should have the patience to read them and to adjust the skills on your skillbars. For me the main concept how to play the jobs is really intuitive. How the combos work, what they do, etc. The fine tuning for maximum damage comes later and should be done on max level because only then you have all your utility skills for extra damage und group buffs.

Something I just caught on, the reason why the additional item doesn't appear at the start of the video is because that specific video hadn't been done yet. So when you finished watching the "Melee DPS" video, the Lance shows up for Dragoon and "Melee DPS". The other two represent Healer and Tank, so odds are the next would be Magic Ranged DPS or Physical Ranged DPS, being they are the only ones he hasn't done. Although I'd find it utterly hysterical if he did BLU..

The first DPS video didn't have an addition at the end screen cause it wasn't a class video, it was about the concept of DPSing

your question about does a battle really gets that close that you wipe on 0.1 percent. hell yea it does more than people care to admit, I've been in battles that if it weren't for the miniscule damage over time damage you'll wipe

@thundergaming155

Жыл бұрын

i saw that in the alexander ultiamate fight they were literally a few frames from wiping but a dot killed it (ironic considering what alexander is).

@vexkin3286

Жыл бұрын

@@thundergaming155 yea i saw a battle like that too xd

@novasiri7809

Жыл бұрын

It really does get insanely butt clenching in those moments. Even in Min iLVL no echo ex's, there's been cases where we're so close to getting a clear.. and that last tick was a healers DoT. But goes does it feel good.

@vexkin3286

Жыл бұрын

@@novasiri7809 it's an amazing feeling if you can pull it off

Okay, only *certain* jobs are available to you at character creation, but you can unlock and play *any* job as you go through the game and level up *at least one job*. Sadly, the Laser Healer doesn't unlock until you have another job at level 70, and it IS more than a bit overwhelming to start. But I just started it myself and so far... it's okay. I really like the weapons so I'm taking my time with it and trying to get comfortable with everything. Reaper *also* unlocks at 70 and it is fecking AWESOME. Oh my word, it's amazing. It's *also* rather intimidating to start, but if you read the tooltips and start looking for how the moves work together, then it falls into place pretty well. As a side note, having leveled Samurai before I played Reaper helped me because the Reaper movement buttons (one for leap in, one for leap back) work very much like Samurai's movement buttons of the same type. Sort of. The combat design for FFXIV is pretty focused on making you move to avoid attacks, so that's going to be unavoidable no matter what you play. Some jobs are just better at it than others. There is *only one Healer* that starts at level 1, and that is Conjurer which upgrades into White Mage. I *highly* recommend it for people who want to start as Healers because it is VERY straightforward and easy to play. At least for me. It's where I started, after all. So yeah, hope you enjoy the game as much as I do. There is a LOT of specific information in the JoCat videos that are relevant to the FFXIV experience, so I'm not surprised that you don't understand some of the references. The biggest thing is to simply enjoy the journey.

@Airier

Жыл бұрын

I've actually just switched over to Conjurer. It feels better for now. I'll probably branch out from it when I get more comfortable with the control scheme.

@kosetsuoshiimaru3908

Жыл бұрын

@@Airier when/if you hit heavensward there will also be new healer that can be unlocked. It is more of a party buffs type of healer with a lot of regenerations spells or spells that will do stuff "later". Interesting to play in my opinion so i would suggest to at lesst give it s try. It starts at level 30.

I just started the free trial a couple days ago after watching JoCat, so don't feel too bad about it.

@linnilotus

Жыл бұрын

Have fun!!

You know what is worst then the red lights in Philly. The construction work in Chicago. My family has driven though there multiple times and each time got stuck there for hours no joke one time we saw zz top tour busses. It was bad for them they also got stuck there but still see them.

Fun fact: the name Victor Quibbles is the name JoCat used for his DnD character when he guest played with the Unexpectables

@Wreckur4203

Жыл бұрын

A.K.A. : RAT

2:10 You know, a character from Hollow Knight: Silksong was shown to do that in a recent trailer. They actually attack you using their buttox. Just so you know a character does that.

@TheJeSTeR7530

Жыл бұрын

Mario has been using his butt as a weapon for generations now.

@savvythedivineyethuggable7493

Жыл бұрын

@@TheJeSTeR7530 No, he stomps on monsters, not sits on them.

@ieyasumei4339

Жыл бұрын

@@savvythedivineyethuggable7493 He's talking about ground pound. Jump in the air and slam Mario's butt on the ground/enemy

As someone who's felt the sting of DPS queue, this happens more often than you think! You're ready to go into a dungeon and because someone either pulled out or forgot they were on the queue, you have to wait again.

Ok 4 things. 1 Best reaction i've seen to these vids yet. 2 Yes there are lots of trench coats and you can even unlock the ability to make ANY clothing or armor cosmetic. So you can have the benefits of the set you want but the look of the set you prefer. Just gotta complete a certain quest to unlock it. Look up a tutorial if it matters to you. 3, 8:26 If you think THAT'S horror. You should see what he drew in his Necrohunt D&D Campaign. Highly recommend watching it during any free time. And 4 Yes. It really has gotten that close before. A single point of damage HAS mattered.

The too fast only applies when the fight “unsynched” which means you aren’t level down to its level. It mostly only applies when you fight it at lvl 80+ (it is only a lvl 50 optional fight). Your damage capabilities are so high it basically would kill the boss in less then 2 minutes. The system itself didn’t know how to handle that absurd speed

The time limit for content is more symbolic than anything. Even if you take your time you shouldn't come close to running out. I think it's mostly there for 3 reasons: 1 - Prevent troll parties from clogging up the instance servers by idling into duties forever. 2 - If you get a really really bad premade group that spends most of their time AFK or fooling around, so it eventually ends without having to take a duty leave penalty that day. 3 - Give a chance to repair gear for very hard content that you're wiping to often. I had a party where someone had some incident come up and they were AFK for 10 minutes or so. They came back and we cleared the dungeon with plenty of time to spare.

okay gonna be breaking down some of Airi's questions as he asks them lets start with the first Comendiations these are done after a Duty weather it's a 4 man dungeon, 8 man trials/raids these usually given to someone in the group that has done good work typically it either goes to the Healer or the Tank of the group but sometimes DPS roles will get it as well. as for the length of the free trial right now it's all of the first and second expansion and patch content for both so patch wise this will take you threw patch 3.5 (A Realm Reborn (patch series 2.0) and Heavensward (patch series 3.0)) which will get you to level 60 out of the current cap of lvl 90 with some restrictions the biggest is no access to Retainers which is how you still items on the Market Board. The Dragon is the Primal Bahamut only fought in the Binding Coils of Bahamut the Raid series for A Realm Reborn but no one really does it. The Glamour Dresser were players store items they use to change the outfits they wear in game if you've played WoW it's simular to the Transmog system only you don't pay gil to use it and you only have (as of right now) 400 spaces to use later this month the space is going to be doubled to 800 the two types of Healers are Direct or Shield healers all four healer jobs split evenly down the middle with 2 Direct (White Mage and Astrologin) and 2 Shield (Scholar and Sage) and when your not needing to drop big heals/shields you need to be rocking your damage spells Technically there's two time limits on Raids there the base duty timer (typically an hour) and the enrage mechanic (which is usually around 15 minutes if your not doing enough dps) ok there is a swimming mechanic but it's not used in combat the tube around the black mage is a Layline a buff they drop on the arena floor where they stand in to do big dps (Black Mage is the most plant and cast of all the Magical DPS classes) okay the three bosses that he is using in this example are Nidhog, Alexander and Omega Weapon. As for your question about Damage Scaling on older bosses no just that there's phase mechanics so going to fast when a boss isn't done with specific phase you will be locked into the mechanics till the boss shifts phase. and you really don't need to make a new character to play a different job as you can play all jobs on the same character as the jobs are Weapon based so your a White Mage with a staff (same with a Black Mage just a different look compared to WHM) Off Global Cooldowns are abilities that aren't tied to the rolling GCD and they typically have a set time when they come off cooldown. the helm Quibbles is wearing for his FFXIV incarnation of JoCrap is the Chocobo head what's under is a Gaysha Green (typically used to feed Chocobos) gonna be honest if you had joined in around 2.0/3.0 yes there's is a lot of button bloat now days there's a couple of jobs that still have it and will be revised coming the next expansion yes some raids I've been in have been that close. though this has been answered ERP is erotic role play put 2 and 2 together this is typically popular oh trust me this is a common acurance for Sprouts (new players) who reach certain levels and still don't know how to play there class for the most part I mentioned this earlier but Black Mage is the most Plant and cast spell slinger in the Magical Ranged DPS jobs and like Mages in WoW moving will cancel the cast of the spell. The orange shapes your seeing are indicators of where the ability's is gonna deal damage in the area your in and you will need to move to avoid it it's very much a dance in this game. ah yes the cheese puff that is vulanarblity stacks this is more common in no high end raiding (there are other debuffs you'll have to worry about there) ah yes the sweet gear for doing Savage and such. to explain the end of the DPS video, the duty Queue DPS typically has the longest queue wait typically around 15 to 20 minutes depending on the duty you have signed up for and having a queue pop and then having the pop dropped due to a member of the matched up party while it does put you back to the front of the Queue having wait 30+ minutes sometimes can be frustrating. okay to break up how FFXIV breaks up DPS there is three distinct roles, Melee DPS, Physical Ranged DPS and Magical Range DPS this covers all those jobs and here's the breakdown for each role, 5 for Melee DPS, 4 for Physical Range DPS and 4 for Magical Range DPS this video covers Melee DPS so it's Monk, Dragoon, Samurai, Ninja and Reaper okay to explain the DJ thing basically it works like this typically if a club pops up in game they have a location given in the housing districts and the DJ will have a POV character in game but will have a link to Twitch where the DJ is actually playing on with a in game camera classes have been changed a lot typically the devs reserve this to expansion revisions of the class or if your a black mage the class changes every 10 levels after lvl 50. Damage Down is the most common debuff you can get in higher raid content (typically Savage Raid) the chat log of limsa thing Limsa Lomensa is the unoffical home of ERPers in game The Auron looking Sam gear is the lvl 70 Samurai Relic gear Uriange is member of the Scions and you interact with him a lot and he speaks a lot of Ye Olden English style talk (which JoCrap starts doing after the Uriange joke) depending on the duty, yes you can fling yourself off a battle arena that means you don't play Rogue as Ninja is unlocked by getting Rogue to lvl 30 (which finishes the Rogue Guild's storyline) heck in ARR alot of the jobs unlock at lvl 30, Warrior (get Maruder to lvl 30), Paladin (get Gladiator at lvl 30), Dragoon (Lancer to lvl 30), Monk (Pugilist to lvl 30), White Mage (Conjurer to lvl 30) I think you get what I mean the Black mage joke, Yoshi-P the director of the game actually plays the game and his Main is Black Mage. Samurai is a very much a difficult class as with Positional skills you have 3 single target combos plus 2 AoE combos your consumable bar that you use to smack them harder As a Reaper main it's technically not a ghost it's a void sent (a being from the void relm I'd explain more but there's major spoilers about it) Sage right now is probably the most finicky of the Healer jobs right now and you need to get a job to lvl 70 to unlock the job (as it's one of the two newer jobs along with Reaper in Endwalker) new jobs in each expansion has level requirements to unlock Heavensward (lvl 30 for Astro, Machist and Dark Knight) Stormblood (lvl 50 for Red mage and Samurai), Shadowbringers (lvl 60 for Gunbreaker and Dancer) and Endwalker (lvl 70 for Sage and Reaper) they typically start the expansion jobs 20 levels before cap (though Heavensward is the exception with 30 levels till cap)

“Does it ever get that close?” YES

1:28 basically, yeah 2:18 in lore time is separated to Astral and umbral eras. For example A realm Reborn takes place in the 7th umbral and Astral era. Wiggly is of course based off of jocat's jocrap character 3:38 commonplace in mmorpgs tbh 6:37 It becomes easier to understand once you get into it 8:57 Aneruyism, panic attack, and murderous intent taken 9:31 erping is very common in ffxiv, including the Limsa Lominsa aetherite lobby 9:57 you'd be surprised how often I see even "mentors" forgetting the most basic stuff 13:40 dps roles typically have a long queue time, compared to tank and healers 15:30 the bard job can play music (although idk if that's actually what was going on at lunarcon) 18:08 abilities are given out over time so you have time to learn. Trust me I was overwhelmed first time looking at people's mmorpg hotbars (for classes that start at a higher level you can run palace of the dead bc you start at level 1) 24:06 dragoon jumps have a long animation and dragoons also accidentally jump off the map alot due to their jump ability 29:00 Yes you will. Although you can't unlock sage until you reach level 80 and get into endwalker

@kazekamiha

Жыл бұрын

Not just Dragoons who can hop off the map; Did it once as Red Mage on Bismarck. Not fun.

@theguyman256

Жыл бұрын

@@kazekamiha true, but I was specifically addressing the floor tank thing

@kazekamiha

Жыл бұрын

@@theguyman256 True. I remember back in City of Heroes we called Blasters (Squishy Ranged DPS) the Floor Inspectors Union.

Limsa Lominsa is one of the three city states you can work for in ff xiv and limsa is a pretty nice looking coast city whith lots of ships and stuff but it gotten a bad rep over the years cause limsa is where 99% of the erp populations is located. and they arent shy about it either

I use training dummies, muscle memory is key for combos so yes I stand in front of peoples homes fighting dummies in their front yard

5:00 yes this mechanic does actually exist and is even in a Final Fantasy game. I cannot confirm for 14 because I couldn't hold interest but FF8 has the enemies scale based on the player level to partially prevent overleveling but the loot the monsters drop can also change based on the enemy level

Give in and join us already! By the way… in case you’re worried about remembering all your combos: calm down, they don’t throw everything at you form the get go. Like everyone else, you get to add to your combo as you level up, and the game does a good job of (mostly) not overwhelming you in the beginning.

@craigfunk3453

Жыл бұрын

Yup. Most dungeons are usually spaced in a way you only have like 1 or 2 abilities more than the previous dungeon in the early game (mostly in the 30 -50 range since you still have base class skills to earn and job abilities to earn). Once you hit the expansions its literally 1 new ability each dungeon, plenty of time to get used to new skills and see how it can work into your general rotation

As for the "too fast" mechanics. Here is an example. Imagine a boss spawns a bomb every 4% hp it loses, but you just nuked 20% of it's health and now eat 5 bombs to the face. You can take them 1 at a time. But 5 OHKs you

each Job except Blue Mage has 90 levels Also DPS is broken into three role Melee, Magical Ranged, and Physical Ranged. Finally Limsa Lominsa is one of the hub cities

29:03 Don't worry. These guides convinced me to get it to. It's just so good. GET THE FREE TRIAL IF YOU DO IT AT ALL! At least until you're ready to dip into the actual game. It's literally the full game and the first 2 dlcs with some understandable limitations. Don't have to pay a dime. Absolutely worth it.

You sound like you're gonna enjoy Ranged DPS. I main Bard(Archer) and I love it!

Recomendation if you want dps go with archer/Bard as a start. Simple rotation that doesn't change too much from level 20 to max and you can move while attacking so you have an easier time avoiding damage zones. Also you provide some utility to the group. Oh and don't do all the sidequests. You'll be way overleveled. Just do main quest (special quest symbol) and your job quests. Also some of the blue quest who unlock stuff like dungeons, additional mechanics (like mounts) or aesthetic stuff like (glamour and dyes). There is a handy unlock progression guide that tells you when and where you can unlock stuff.

Another thing to react to now: JoCat released a full version of “Spooky Slice”

There is a new Jocat video, it is called Spooky Slice.

Okay those are funny reminds me of "Press Start to Laugh's" old guide to tank/healing, back when his channel was Hiveleader (I think)

I can't wait for you to rewatch this when you actually played this 😂.

If you want a healer that moves less you want conjurer/white mage... but then you have to pay attention to where you are. Sage (the one that SHOOTS LASERS) on the other hand can be moving for a big chunk of their healing meaning you can move without having to worry about having to stop healing to run. Problem is that Sage unlocks pretty late so you'll probably start as White Mage.

Don't worry about the extra buttons, the way the system works is they slowly add more buttons as you level (and I do mean slowly), so you get used to each part of the chain as it's added. Edit: To be clear this is actually a decent amount of time if your leveling at the normal speed, not grinding (which means you have more time) or power leveling (which means you might not have enough). More than enough to get it down to raw muscle memory with no real thought needed.

So a few things: >The first DPS crap guide is in regards to Damage per Second as a general rule, this one (and a potential future one) deal in specifics on how the melee vs damage DPS classes work and general helpful tips. Generic DPS doesn't have a specific weapon so I assume he didn't add one to the intro screen bc it applies to ALL classes >The buttons look like a lot but they're from max level classes and are not as complicated as they seem bc they're slowly introduced as you level >The 'cabbage' is a ghysal green you feed them to chocobos (the bird mounts) so they follow you around like a pet and help when running solo content. The one JoCat's wearing is connected to the Chocobo head piece they're wearing >Limsa aka Limsa Lominsa is a major city in FFXIV where TONS of people AFK and do tons of emotes, RP, and general chatter in the game it's NEVER quiet and that chat log is ENORMOUS >There are a few edge case raids/trials that do have a mechanic that will kick you out of the arena and you will die (mostly due to knockback effects). Dragoon and Red Mage have a abilities that let you jump in and out quickly but if you're not careful and the arena changes/gets smaller you will get booted off the map and die. (I have started leveling dragoon and yes I have done this) >lucky for you Rogue (which turns into Ninja at higher levels) is not an available starting class so you won't have to worry about accidentally picking it up when you start lol Anyways hope this answers some of your more easily understandable questions/confusion. Final Notes: I've been playing for about a year and it's been SO GOOD. If you're looking for a simpler rotation I'd definitely recommend picking up a tank class. But DPS becomes very simple and is easy to follow because it's a slow skill build up as you level (Also if you pick arcanist you get a free healer leveled when they're higher lvl because it unlock both summoner and scholar, which shares 'arcanist' EXP) Archer (which turns into bard) and Thaumaturge (which turns into black mage are my personal favorites. HAVE FUN!

All right, you really should play this game because it did receive the award for best community and when you start playing you will learn really fast that any questions you have in the community will help you out. If positions aren’t your thing I would suggest playing ranged attackers, probably dancer would be the best choice for you. Trust me when I said this Sage (The one that shoots lasers) it’s really cool but healing does have a large scale cap and can be REALLY Stressful at times although I say this and then someone’s going to be like “all dancewear practice comes in” and they’re not wrong but I’m just warning you. The other reason to play this game: 1. The story is amazing 2. The artwork and some of the zones is insane and it will actually bring you to tears because of how Beautiful it looks (it did for me) 3. The soundtrack is beyond amazing

The concept of 'Enrage' (or a timer on a fight you must beat or you die) is usually reserved for the optional Extreme and Savage tiers of a fight (And Ultimates, which is beyond savage in that its a Gauntlet of multiple bosses back to back with no checkpoints each with its own enrage to beat and especially when it comes to the world 1st clears usually come down to the Wire of the DoTs from the healers being needed to make it to the killing blow, the major example used in this video being Perfect Alexander from the TEA ultimate fight which has a stretch of time after time locking every player in the party where DoTs still tick away before the fight blacks out and resets) Normal content very rarely has things even remotely close to an enrage purely just so people can eventually brute force their way through for the sake of 'story progress'

My suggestion for starting off in FFXIV is try lancer. Lancer/Dragoon is one of the easiest classes to play for starting off if you don't want major responsibility. The class will assist you with doing your rotation by highlighting skill/spells that are next in the combo. You could also setup a controller to use which can clean up the appearance of your skill/spell bars. The main thing to watch out for when playing as a melee DPS is the real life de-buff called "Tunnel Vision". It is usually the main cause for the running joke for Lancer/Dragoons being called "Floor Tanks".

@Lorekeeper_GGuy

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I don’t know if Floor Tank is a XIV specific thing or not but people have probably been making fun of dragoon as a “jump into an attack” class since it’s inception

Re: Your thoughts on it being odd that Monks don't have ranged attacks. They DO, in fact they do have some of those blasts/energy pulses/anime nonsense. BUT, JoCat's saying they don't have any because they're not usable at will. They require some resource or other and build-up, they're not just like, "dragoon tosses a spear, ninja tosses a knife, paladin Captain America's their shield" spam moves.

I just started Sage as a way to avoid unsubscribing. Healing a party, while doing DPS that caps out below tanks is the hardest game mode imo. While I like it, I'd be lying if I said it wasn't to much effort for what feels like a small gain.

The rotation ( the buttons you hit in order to do your skills best) builds very slowly throughout the lvling process. I play a monk and it is very crazy at times (and yes we have been reworked alot, the most being this last expansion)

The free trial up through the end of the first expansion does have some restrictions... but it's a *great* way to dip your toes in if you're interested. I'm one of the omni-class folks that does EVERYTHING, and legitimately, there are days where I'll while away several hours just fishing.

You're accurate about the commend. A glamour dresser is a form of "chest" that's specifically set to make outfit loadouts for. Note these outfit loadouts DON'T affect stats at all and are purely cosmetic. But you can put any armor, weapon, or accessories into it outside of quest tied items. And all dungeons, bosses, etc are tied to levels and are synced as a result. So things like "Damage too fast" isn't an actual issue. Scaith is a super terrible black mage (advanced class) spell that has literally no reason to be pressed. And surprisingly yes, people do use dummy targets quite frequently tbh. Mostly from raiders tho Lunarcon is a convention similar to comicon but instead of Square Enix running it. The players run it for the sheer love of the game. The reason you don't see another "addition" among the roles is because DPS is filled between 3 classifications, ranged, magic, and melee. Which he'll (probably) be doing individually. Damage down is SUPER bad for DPS, it's something like a 60% damage output reduction. And as far as limsa thing is concerned, it's well known to be the "degenerate" gathering place, even tho I would say more accurately the afk hangout place. When it comes to death by falling, it's a yes and no. No because you can't die in the overworld from fall damage (unless you get immediately attacked, then a possibility depending on the HP remaining). But during boss fights most of them have an "instant kill" zone around the arena which is usually obviously shown as death zone However throughout the video, you were worried about button amounts. Don't fret too much, because you unlock these over time rather then all at once. And the community is SUPER helpful and SUPER patient so don't fret too much if you panic. The community is always willing to help

Yes there are max level players that do not know their AoE combos but it is not as egregious as you might think unlike other MMOs where you are playing 1 job per character every character has access to all jobs and can switch on the fly at any point (outside of combat and instances) as long as they unlocked the class. Every job levels independent so you might have a warrior at lvl 90 and a black mage at lvl 10 the game has catch up mechanics to make leveling faster for every job that isn’t the highest lvl job, so while you might have a person that knows how to play something like ninja and mains it the last time they touched paladin was last expansion 2 yrs prior to reach lvl cap

Limsa as in Limsa Lominsa, one of the capital cities. It also has a reputation for the hub being home to.... more risque people chatting and doing acts I should not describe here in the youtube comments.

7:05 the Hat is a Chocobo The necklace is a Gysahl Green. Looks like head of cabbage/lettuce, but more particularly, the favored snack of the aformentioned Chocobo

Some general tips: Character creation is all flavor don't worry about things like stats or exclusive skills or anything. You can unlock and level every job on one character so don't worry about your starting choice, it only really matters for which city you start in. Blue quests unlock new features, game modes, etc, if you see one try to do it soon. On the other hand yellow quests don't really have good rewards but expand on lore and characters, would suggest doing them when you have off time if only to clear out the map. Arcanist is generally considered the easiest class and it has the least amount of buttons in the game, it also gives you a free healer which is nice. Really just get the free trial and try it out, it's really generous and you don't have to worry that much about being good outside certain late game content. Also if you want I'd suggest watching the 1.0 trailer to get some lore on 1.0. The Speaker's Network "Fall and Rise of FFXIV" and NoClip Gaming's 14 documentary are also nice in terms of the development side of 1.0. (The last two are a bit long for a video though.)

INRE the party finder bit at the end of the DPS video, while I haven't seen anywhere he literally recorded it while waiting, the queue is sometimes (for deeps usually) long enough to be valid. Hence why the task video referenced their queue privilege. (I've seen it say average wait 30+ min and be correct. If you're queuing as deeps, it's a good idea to be doing something else on the side while waiting. Or get friends / FC members to queue with you as tank or healer and share their queue privilege.)

i recommend "basically which job" by larryzaur. its a bit more serious than the crap guides and goes over the general basic gameplay of each class. its outdated right now, because a new expansion came out, but its a good reference to sort of pick your favorite classes. then look up his "endwalker job" videos for your favorites, they are the same thing but just one class per video going over the new expansion changes.

Bunch of info here to clarify things in the video: So the "Feint" button he mentions is a melee DPS exclusive utility button which reduces the damage the target enemy deals by a small amount (10% less physical damage, 5% less magical damage). While that's not *totally* insignificant, the ability has a somewhat long cooldown, is single-target, and most of the time you'd want to use it (like a big unavoidable attack that hits everyone in the group) the damage is magic damage anyway. Hence only "hitting Feint once in a blue moon". The "24-hour chat log of Limsa" is referring to Limsa Lominsa, one of the three starter cities - and the one that's most typically associated with degeneracy, slutty outfits, and erotic roleplay, which is why being forced to read said chat log is portrayed as a bad thing. He also mentions "a party at the Quicksand at 6" later, which is the only place more degenerate than Limsa and only on the server Balmung - it's more or less like Goldshire on Moon Guard in World of Warcraft, in that it is the primary place people looking for lewd RP go. As for the jumping off the map, yes - some boss arenas have hard edges, but there's also plenty of boss arenas where it's entirely possible to walk or jump off the edge to certain death, or into a field of fire or spikes or magic surrounding the arena. Thus, if your class has a "jump backwards" button, like the Dragoon, it's important to know exactly how far back you'll jump so that you don't use it too close to the edge. The ninja segment of the video is joking about how complex it is, as none of the ninjutsu combos are greater than three buttons long (e.g. Ten-Chi-Jin vs Ten-Jin-Chi) at most, but it really helps to commit them to muscle memory or else it'll *feel* like the joke versions in the video. Finally, if/when you do finally play FFXIV - you don't actually have to pick a single class! You can play every single class and gathering and crafting profession (which count as classes) on the same character! While you need to fulfill certain requirements to unlock the ability to learn new classes, once you have multiple classes, switching between the ones you have is as simple as switching your main weapon. They all level independently of each other, which can take a while if you want to level *everything* up, but it also gives you time with each class to learn how their core mechanics work.

If you want to start playing and are feeling like doing support but aren't sure, I'm going to recommend you start with Arcanist, which is a caster DPS. The reason is that once you get to level 30 in a job, you unlock the advanced version (ie Lancer becomes Dragoon), but with Arcanist you unlock both Summoner (the advanced DPS) and Scholar (a fun healer job). And since they are tied to the same base job, they level up at the same time so you can just switch between the two whenever you feel like doing something else. Also don't worry about getting locked into your job, once you get to level 15 and get past a certain point in the early story, you can start all the other base jobs by going to their respective guilds and switch freely.

you could play the archer. you can move at any time it's mainly keeping your DOT's and Buffs up so standing still anywhere is fine too.

@DarthZ01

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machinist is probably the most simple. ranged so you can wander everywhere you wander. 1 2 3 combo, 3 skills with long cooldowns you use when ready, and 2 bars that fill up over time and when full you use on summoning a robot or lighting your guns on fire depending on which meter is full.

"Too fast" is a reference to a specific fight. Adds spawn and every time you kill one an unavoidable aoe goes off. You have to kill them all, but go too fast and the healer can't keep up.

So about that bit in the end of the first video about the duty finder, on the off chance someone else didn't explain this to you or you didn't see it or forgot the explanation: the duty finder sets up people looking for a specific or range of duties, and usually involves 1 tank, 1 healer, and 2 DPS's. And there are more DPS classes than tanks and healers combined, and they're much more popular than the non-DPS classes. As a result, it's rare that a Tank has to wait more than five minutes for the duty finder to find them a party, a healer rarely has to wait longer than instantly (seriously, 9/10 times as a healer, the duty finder finds me a party the MOMENT I hit "search") while DPS rarely has to wait less than 5 minutes, usually 20 minutes or more. And when the finder finds people, they all have 45 seconds to select "accept" in order for the duty to commence...and far, FAR too often someone fails to accept in time (9/10 times it's a DPS) despite all the penaties that happen when you fail to commence duties.

Bit late, but when I first fought the Ultima Weapon, we beat the enrage by literally one pixel. It was 1 pixel from nuking the party when we beat it.

The "cabbage" is a gysahl green, the favorite food of a chocobo.

The Dragoon *can* jump out of arenas, and is about the only job who can consistently do so. For everyone else, they usually get knocked out by failing a boss mechanic. Dragoons have the “Elusive Leap” skill which allows you to create distance by jumping about the radius of the average 8man boss arena backwards. However, it does *not* confirm that if you do so, you will still be in the arena. Which means you can easily kill yourself by jumping to your death while trying to avoid an AOE. Which is why most Dragoons actually use it to close gaps instead. Turn back to target, elusive leap, attack.

Hey, just found about you reacting to Meta Runner and binged watched your reactions to it (I love your type of reactions) and im just curious, did you stop/forget/took a break from the rest? Bc id love to see you analyse the rest of it and see your reactions to the lore drops coming up next in this yt animation masterpiece. (sorry if this has been asked millions of times, im sure it has, Im just curious as its my fav yt series and the 3rd season is being released) (also sorry for commenting this multiple times)

@Airier

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I'm actually thinking about doing the rest of the season at a live stream and then maybe tackling the second season in a different stream as well. 🤔

@Astro-strategist

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@@Airier ok, you def should

9:56 To use a Destiny metaphor, it's more akin to finding someone in a Nightfall, and they don't know they have a grenade.

Wait you where in Tekko? WTF, I was there. Hope you had fun!

"I have no resistance to my collecting erge" *looks at grey/blue hoards in the background* That checks out. (Same btw, no shame)

@Airier

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That's just the bit I got around to unboxing after moving. It's actually much worse. 😅

Oh god, Destiny orbs...are we talking about the Oversoul? We've got to be talking about the Oversoul. So many memories of so many wipes to that orb. But that aside! XIV is a pretty fun game, from one Guardian to another. It's definitely a different flow to combat, but it's pretty fun in its own right!

@Airier

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Yeah, I noticed I tried playing the archer like a Guardian. For obvious reasons it didn't quite work. 😅

"How to start" Have you perhaps been informed that the critically acclaimed mmorpg final fantasy 14 has a free trial up to level 60?

@Airier

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I downloaded when I've had a two week trial, and I knew it went free to play, but I didn't know it was up to level 60. 😯

@Barret9559

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@@Airier And includes the Award Winning Expansion Heavensward. Also you can play every class on the same character as you switch via your weapons and you can save weapon and armor configs for each for quick swapping between them. Note, if you get one class to 60, you can switch to a new class that's lower and keep playing.

4:42 Oh, Ifrit! Ifrit spawns "nails" that you ought to kill before he reaches certain HP treshhold, otherwise he'll cast a raidwide aoe that kills the party. The nails, however, don't only explode on death but also apply a 3 seconds vulnerability debuff on ebveryone so it is HIGHLY not recommended to kill them all at the same time, rather kill two, wait 3s, kill another and so on - otherwise each explosion will hurt more. The thing on a black mage, the floaty swimmy tube is a joke about leylines. I could give a lenghty explanation, but i think Pint's 10000hours as black mage will do it for me :D

To be fair, I didn't know how to use my limit breaks until Endwalker...

When you make your toon, pic thr conjurer. At level 30 it will give you access to the Summoner and Scholar jobs. Dps caster and Healer, respectively. They gain exp at the same time. May want to make sure About that starring class, though, I don't really remember which one it is. Is... shit, it's the Arcanist. Conjurer gets you the White Mage at 30. Also good times.

More reaction fodder for you: • The expansion trailers • "Basically, which job" by Larryzaur (1 expansion behind, but still fun) • FINAL FANTASY XIV Documentary by NoClip (Parts 1-3)

I wonder if it's like some of my early experiences with City of Heroes where long range attacks were best for kiting over a limited number of overleveled mobs when soloing. For that or some other reason AoE might be massively non-optimal when soling.

The laser healer isn't available until you get a job up to 70, but by then you'll have a good handle on the game in general!

Enrage normally only happens when you do extreme or savage versions of those battles so most of the time you don't have to worry about enrage.

It happened once in a D&D video You even said the same "I was not aware Jocat can do horror" In that video too

lolol you're adorkable sir!

5:00 - You'll just stomp the boss if you're overleveling it by more than 10 levels. Normally, you can scale down to the boss level to do the encounter properly, but early bosses are not very well designed. That boss can hit enrage if you skip certain phases, so you need to pace the start of the fight to not hit enrage too early. Later bosses don't have that kind of restriction.

Would you stream on twitch or KZread?

I'd like to point out that it's a bajillion times easier to memorize the button order for your class if you know the thought behind it? It becomes less a game of "Press 1, now 2, now 3 ... now 20, hope you remember all that!" and more a game of "Okay, this one increases my damage, apply poison, 1, 2, 3 combo, now this increases the damage of my next hit, so now we press the one with the BIG damage and BIG cooldown, back to 1-2-3..." (Not only easier, it's also healthier, since you'll be better prepared to improvise if you make a mistake or something in the fight forces you to change what you do) The buttons are also doled out at a veeery slow, comfy pace. Sometimes too slow, actually... _flashbacks to leveling Black Mage_

Welcome to the fold. We have cookies. Also the stories are great!!

The cabbage is a gysal green. It's what chocobo's eat.

I may not be privy to the details about Ifrit (get upset if too fast) but the general idea of the fight in current year is basically just making sure you are paying attention in general and don't burst down the boss as fast as possible, triggering health percent related mechanics. In FFXIV most if not all the fights are some kind of dance and if you ignore the rules of the dance don't blame anyone but yourself when you find yourself tripping in an ice skating rink wearing bowling shoes.

The reason there are a decent number of people at the level cap without knowing all their abilities is fairly simple: level skips. while most players do level up their first character to cap the old-fashioned way, they sell things in the cash shop (MogStation) to allow you to automatically skip your character to a pretty high level as a convenience for folks who want to get to raiding ASAP, and there are a decent number of transfers from other MMOs who assume all their knowledge from that other MMO transfers over and so don’t bother reading tooltips and practicing because “it’s just FFXIV’s version of this class I played in ,” or FFXIV single-class veterans who want to try out a new class on their same character real quick and just don’t bother…and a small number of total noobs with more confidence than sense that just pay to “win” anyway.

Imagine associating the typical abilities of cultivators and immortals in Chinese fantasy with monks, despite the fact that the stereotypical behavior of such individuals is basically the exact opposite of a monk.

Wait till this man see questing beast

fun fact, i was level 80 in a dungeon just using one aoe skill over and over. another player called me out. the problem was i play machinist, and machinst actually literally does only have 1 aoe button at level 80. more specifically theres a poison sprayer that poisons enemies in front of you with a 30 second cooldown, a flamethrower that shoots fire in front of you for 10 seconds on like a minute cooldown, and a single spammable ability that you can use during these cooldowns over and over. so while i knew my aoe combo at level 80, someone else thought they knew my combo better.

dont worry if you use a controller you only have to deal with 8 at a time depending on which trigger you click

Please tell me you have the intention to react to "The Animated Spellbook" videos by Zee Bashew like you said you were going to a while back, and then when I brought it up you mentioned you were going to as well. He's even a friend of Jocat and has Jocat is in two of his videos as well.

@Airier

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I keep meaning to, but then I get easily distracted by shiny things. It's DEFINITELY on my list of things to check out, though.

@RedeemerofDark

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@@Airier Well that's good to hear, I was worried since it'd been so long. But hey if you reacted to this after saying you weren't going to then you can definitely react to his stuff!

Would love to play a bit with you but I'm on a European Datacenter.

the handsign is actually a Buddhist thing ninjas used to calm down and strengthening their concentration

12:00 makes me wonder if he’s driven in Philly and that’s why the joke cause PaxUnplugged is in Philly and he’s been at least twice

Might I suggest archer/bard for a starting job